Example sentences of "[v-ing] down a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , her right one 's hanging down a little bit . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | A DRINK-DRIVER was jailed for just four months yesterday for mowing down a nine-year-old girl . |
| 4 | When he saw Topaz climbing down a rough slope he brought Nero to a halt , an overwhelming surge of life running through him as if he were being born anew . |
| 5 | There was a significant improvement on the other side of the viaduct , a Victorian class divide that had survived the years , and within two blocks he was walking down a tree-lined avenue composed of tall , detached houses set back from the road behind fair-sized gardens . |
| 6 | My sister came here and she said ‘ It 's like walking down a grave yard ’ . |
| 7 | A YOUNG DRIVER sped off after knocking down a 49-year-old mother and her 25-year-old daughter at Arnold , Notts . |
| 8 | Consider what context would give the following actions symbolic resonance : using a talking stick or talisman crossing a threshold turning off a radio knocking down a wooden post . |
| 9 | A moment later , having leapt the gate , Samuel Taylor Coleridge was bounding down a pathless field towards them . |
| 10 | They were cruel , dark , pupiless eyes , like looking down a bottomless pit . |
| 11 | It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . " |
| 12 | And suddenly he was visited by a brief vision of a young man hurrying down a narrow woodland path on a dark night , in drizzling rain , a dun-coloured cloak on him , its hood drawn close over his head . |
| 13 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 14 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
| 15 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
| 16 | It was utterly beyond comprehension that , mistrusting him as she did , she could never quite succeed in damping down a tiny frisson of physical response . |
| 17 | Most spend much of their time feeding and bathing their mother , doing laundry and other household work , and sometimes also holding down a paid job , with only very limited opportunities for a break of any kind . |
| 18 | Yes , she was undoubtedly holding down a real job , in a man 's world ; and where she had gone , other women would follow . |
| 19 | The start of the game , with Scotland camped in Malta 's half , appeared to imply that the night would be spent wearing down a Maltese defence which used Buttigieg as a sweeper behind four other bodies . |
| 20 | The 13-year-old West Bridgford LTC player managed to grapple his way from one set behind in this epic encounter , eventually wearing down a smaller-framed Neathey to take the match by two sets to one . |
| 21 | These were put in much faster and deeper , able to accept a greater charge , and be capable of breaking down a greater burden . |
| 22 | They invented harmonic analysis , in the sense that they introduced the idea of breaking down a complicated periodical effect into a sum of simpler periodical effects in order to make the mathematics tractable . |
| 23 | Slowing down a habitual eating rate is n't easy and tends to need prolonged effort . |
| 24 | The cab skidded to a halt , its headlights pointing down a long slope of scree . |
| 25 | She made his costume , cutting down a white linen shirt and fitting it tight up round the neck . |
| 26 | The features cover everything from the environment to business , from shutting down a nuclear power station , to opening up a red-hot Mexican restaurant . |
| 27 | John and the rest of the room seemed to be miles away — even my own voice , when I produced it finally , sounded as if it were coming down a long-distance telephone . |
| 28 | Just coming down a little bit . |
| 29 | This movie is simply enormous fun , and despite the fact it 's treading down a well-worn Yuletide path with no major surprises it manages to invest an old tale with great oomph , humour and enough of a jaundiced eye to avoid the sucrose trap . |
| 30 | The jitney turned , plunging down a bumpy alley . |